Cosul

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Community Großpostwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 20 ″  N , 14 ° 28 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 303 m
Area : 2.02 km²
Residents : 135  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 67 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1936
Incorporated into: Großpostwitz

Cosul , in Sorbian Kózły ? / i , is a district of the community Großpostwitz in Saxony . The place is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . Audio file / audio sample

Aerial view

geography

The Waldhufendorf is located southeast of Bautzen in the Lausitzer Bergland . Cosul extends in a south-facing slope from the valley of the Cosuler water to the 334.1 m high Cosuler mountain. The village is dominated in the northeast by the 431.9 m high Thromberg , in the north by the 412.4 m high Schmoritz , in the east by the 514 m high Hromadnik and in the southeast by the 402.2 m high Herrnsberg.

history

View of Cosul from the southwest

The settlement is probably a Slavic foundation. The place name is probably derived from "kosy" (oblique or crooked), other interpretations go from "koza" (goat) or "kózlo" (kid). Possibly the original core of the settlement was in Niederdorf on the brook, where the upper village was laid out as a Waldhufendorf during the colonization period.

In 1419 the place was called "Coßelaw", other later spellings were among others "Kosel", "Cosel" "Cosula in the mountains" and "Cosel in the mountains". In 1526, the von Nadelwitz family and Gut Köblitz also sold “Cosula” to the von Grisslau family on Crostau . In 1451 Caspar and Peter von Grisslau had to sell part of their income from Cosul to the Bautzen cathedral chapter due to debts . In 1547 Peter von Kopperitz bought "Kosul" and Köblitz von den Grisslau in Weigsdorf. Presumably it was not about the whole village, but only a part. On the northern edge of the forest of the Herrnsberg there was a preliminary work of the Weigsdorf manor , which was occasionally listed as a farm . Another part of Cosul belonged to Melchior Rosenhayn in 1552 together with the Nadelwitz Vorwerk . On September 12, 1588, the Bautzen council bought Christoff von Haugwitz auf Putzkau's share in Cosul for 1,300 thalers. The village was thus divided into three parts: a Bautzen council, a cathedral monastery and a district bailiff. In 1597 the Bautzen council sold "Khosell" to Johann Schonborn for 1,300 thalers. The Bautzen purchase book shows that the council continued to hold a stake in Cosul; In 1604, Cosul councilors bought themselves free from court services. From the 17th century onwards, the place was subject to the Hainitz mill.

When the tax was raised in 1748, two large farmers, two half- huefers , seven small gardeners and seven small house owners from the council, one large farmer and two large gardeners from the rent office on the Ortenburg and one half- huefner and one large gardener each to the cathedral monastery were liable to pay taxes from “Cosula im Gebürge” . In 1777 the village consisted of nine possessed , eleven gardeners and twelve cottagers. In 1783, all of Cosul's houses were thatched. In 1834 the village had 110 inhabitants. On April 27, 1838, 20 houses burned down. In the granodiorite quarries east of Cosul operated since the middle of the 19th century, the small farmers of the place earned an extra income. Major fires broke out again in 1881 and 1902. In 1936 Cosul was incorporated into Großpostwitz.

population

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 175 inhabitants in the 1880s; 146 of them were Sorbs (83%) and 29 Germans. At that time Cosul was on the southern edge of the closed Sorbian language area. In the meantime, the Sorbian language has largely disappeared from everyday life in the village.

literature

Web links

Commons : Cosul / Kózły  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.